STEAMBOAT SPRINGS —During a joint meeting Tuesday night, the Steamboat Springs City Council and the Routt County Board of Commissioners will discuss the commissioners’ opposition to a new potential funding mechanism for downtown improvements.

The council also will weigh a proposal from the commissioners to split the cost of new air pollution monitoring equipment.

The commissioners last month sent the council a letter saying they would not support the creation of a new urban renewal authority that would use tax incremental financing to fund public improvements downtown, including projects on Yampa and Oak streets. A downtown revitalization committee is pursuing the URA.

According to the commissioners, individual taxpayers in Routt County already pay higher property tax bills because of the mountain URA that funded the promenade at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area and the daylighting of Burgess Creek.

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